1 18 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS VOL. 22 



Spiophanes anoculata, new species 

 Spiophanes, unknown sp., Hartman and Barnard, this volume, p. 47. 



This species comes from Santa Catalina Basin (Sta. 4742), San 

 Nicolas Basin (Sta. 5931) and Patton escarpment. Specimens are small, 

 measure less than 15 mm long. The prostomium is triangular, broadest 

 in front, and has a pair of long, slender lateral processes or horns at the 

 frontal margin. There are no eyes or several inconspicuous dark specks 

 are visible at the sides, between the palpal bases. A median antenna is 

 lacking. Long, brown, diverging nuchal organs arise from behind the 

 palpal bases and are continued through 2 segments; they are conspicuous 

 in fresh specimens but fade on preservation. 



The first segment is biramous; its notopodium is reduced to a slender, 

 papillar lobe closely appressed to the front of the neuropodium. It is 

 provided with a small fascicle of very long, slender setae. The neuro- 

 podium is much larger, has a triangular postsetal lobe slightly larger 

 than that of the next segment, and a spreading fascicle of many long, 

 pointed setae and a thick, sharply curved, brassy yellow geniculate spine. 

 Neuropodial postsetal lobes of segments one to five are thin and folia- 

 ceous ; thereafter they are increasingly fleshy and become thick and pad- 

 like through 9 segments. These have conspicuously colored glandular 

 areas (red in fresh specimens, faded in older ones). 



Neuropodial hooded hooks are first present from the postglandular 

 region, or segment 15. Postsetal lobes of anterior segments are broad and 

 triangular, while those of postglandular segments are slender and cirri- 

 form. 



Spiophanes anoculata differs from other species of the genus in having 

 prostomial horns, and eyes absent or nearly so; the first segment is very 

 unequally biramous, with the notopodium reduced to a papilla. The first 

 5 segments differ from the next 9 in having foliaceous parapodial lobes. 



This is known only from the outer series of basins and the Patton 

 escarpment ; it is considered a deep water or basin form. 



Spiophanes pallidus, new species 

 (Plate 10, figs. 1, 2) 



The type is from East Cortes Basin (Sta. 5943) ; others are from 

 San Clemente and questionably San Nicolas Basins. Length is 11.3 mm 

 for 24 anterior segments. The prostomium is broadly T-shaped, lacks 

 lateral horns and is broadest at its frontal margin ; it extends posteriorly 

 between the palpal bases and narrows to a caruncle extending back to the 



